Social media - Embed a Twitter feed in your online store

Store Design

Topic summary

Tutorial Overview:
A guide for embedding a Twitter feed into a Shopify store theme to display recent tweets and encourage visitor engagement. The process involves creating an embeddable element through Twitter’s publish platform and manually inserting the code into the store’s theme.liquid file.

Key Requirements & Warnings:

  • Advanced tutorial requiring HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Liquid knowledge
  • Not officially supported by Shopify
  • Recommends hiring a Shopify Expert if uncomfortable with technical implementation

Implementation Steps:

  1. Access Twitter’s publish tool (publish.twitter.com)
  2. Create embeddable element following Twitter’s instructions
  3. Copy generated embed code
  4. Navigate to Shopify Admin > Online Store > Themes
  5. Edit desired theme and open theme.liquid in code editor
  6. Paste code at desired display location
  7. Save changes

Alternative Solution:
A codeless app called “Tweefy” is available on the Shopify App Store for users preferring a no-code implementation approach.

Summarized with AI on November 22. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Caution

This is an advanced tutorial and is not supported by Shopify. Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Liquid is required. Consider hiring a Shopify Expert if you aren’t comfortable doing the steps in the tutorial.

Twitter allows you to show a feed of your recent tweets on your website using an embeddable element. You can embed an element in your online store to show your recent tweets to your visitors, and encourage them to follow you on Twitter.

To embed a Twitter feed in your online store:

  1. Go to publish.twitter.com.
  2. Create a new embeddable element, following Twitter’s instructions.
  3. Copy the embed code to your clipboard using command + c on a Mac, ctrl + c on a PC.
  4. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
  5. Find the theme you want to edit, and then click Actions > Edit code.
  6. Click theme.liquid in the sidebar to open it in the editor.
  7. Find where you want to display the element.
  8. Paste your clipboard contents using cmd + v on a Mac or ctrl + v on a PC.
  9. Save your changes.
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Hi there,

I created an app call Tweefy you could also use as a codeless alternative.

Feel free to check it out: https://apps.shopify.com/tweefy

Cheers,